Psalms 113:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and for evermore.

Blessed be the name of the Lord - i:e., the Lord as He hath manifested Himself in His glorious deeds for His people. 'The world which forms a God according to its own fancies has a nameless God' (Hengstenberg).

From this time forth and forevermore. The Psalmist takes for granted as already accomplished the deliverance and exaltation of the Lord's people, and praises the Lord for it, and for the causes of praise which faith assures him the Lord will give "forevermore." Israel shall especially say so "from the time" that the Lord shall restore her, To that time prophetically the allusion is.

Psalms 113:2

2 Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and for evermore.